Three Hours to Kill
- September 3, 1954 (1954-09-03) (New York City)
- November 4, 1954 (1954-11-04) (United States)
Three Hours to Kill is a 1954 American Western film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Dana Andrews, Donna Reed and Dianne Foster.[1]
It inspired the 1956 Roger Corman film Gunslinger.[2]
Plot
Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews) returns to town three years after being falsely accused of murdering Carter Mastin (Richard Webb). Jim finds that his old friend Ben East (Stephen Elliott) is now the sheriff. In a flashback, Jim recounts his near-lynching by a mob convinced he had shot Carter in the back. Laurie (Donna Reed), Carter's sister, who was planning on marrying Jim, disrupts the lynching, and Jim narrowly escapes. He still bears a neck scar from his ordeal. Ben gives Jim three hours to find the true killer. Through confrontations with several of the men who had been eager to hang him, Jim is led to the guilty man.
Cast
- Dana Andrews as Jim Guthrie
- Donna Reed as Laurie Mastin
- Dianne Foster as Chris Palmer
- Stephen Elliott as Sheriff Ben East
- Richard Coogan as Niles Hendricks
- Laurence Hugo as Marty Lasswell
- James Westerfield as Sam Minor
- Richard Webb as Carter Mastin
- Carolyn Jones as Polly
- Charlotte Fletcher as Betty
- Whit Bissell as Deke
- Francis McDonald as Deputy Vince
References
External links
- Three Hours to Kill at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Three Hours to Kill at IMDb
- Three Hours to Kill at AllMovie
- Three Hours to Kill at the TCM Movie Database
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